Title from caption on a2

Various states of the colophon and the final gathering are recorded, as described in the British Museum catalog (VI, 630). The Bodleian catalog further summarizes combinations of variation: " ... with colophon A and the innermost sheet of gathering l (l4 /l5) printed with Nerlius's type 110 R; [or] with colophon B and the innermost sheet of gathering l and the last gathering ([rum]) printed with Nerlius's type 110 R. Nerlius's type is distinguished from Laurentii 111RB by a separate ‘Q'. The Bodleian copy represents a third stage, having colophon A but without any occurrence of a separate ‘Q' on l4 (yet one on l5v) and only one in gathering [rum], at [rum]6v."--Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-092.

Imprint based on colophon ([rum]7): LAVS DEO HONOR ET GLORIA. LEONIS BAPTISTAE ALBERTI FLORENTINI VIRI CLArissimi de re Aedificatoria opus elega[n]tissimu[m] et qnamaxime utile: Florentiae accuratissime impressum opera Magistri Nicolai Laurentii Alamani: Anno Salutis Millesimo octuagesimo quinto: quarto Kalendas Ianuarius

With Angelo Poliziano's dedicatory Epistola ad Laurentium Medicem and Baptista Siculus's Carmen ad lectorem. It appears from Poliziano's epistle that the editing was done by Alberti's brother Bernardo (cf. ISTC)

Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f-o⁸ p⁶ q-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸.

Chancery folio; a3 recto: 34 lines, 189 x 117 mm; type: 111R(b), 110R (inmost sheet of gathering l andgathering [rum]; initial spaces with and without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 630 (IB.27125a)

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00215000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.82 FOLIO has colophon "B," as described in the British Museum catalog, with innmost sheet of gathering l and all of gathering [rum] printed in Nerlius 110R. Leaf dimensions: 282 x 204 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.82 FOLIO with purchase inscription on front flyleaf recto referencing the Hammond sale of July, 1815 (here conjectured to be in the hand of Richard Heber). Early marginalia on a2 verso. Purchased from Edgar Wells in Feb. 1940.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.82 FOLIO bound in ca. 18th/19th-century red goatskin paneled in gilt. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt. All text block edges stained yellow, with title inscribed along fore-edge.

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